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VAN B. PERRINE & w. s. BOON.

(No Model.)

APPARATUS FOR LOADING LUMBER.

Patented Oct. 19,1897.

WIN/8858 ATTORNEYS NITED :TATES vAN B. PERRINE, OF-FORT WAYNE, INDIANA,AND WILLIAM s. nooN, or

. .MONTPELIER, oHIo.

APPARATUS FQRLOADING LUMBER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,121, dated October1.9,- 1897.

Application filed April 9, 1897. semi No- 63l,3'71. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- broken away. Fig. 2 is a Vertical sectionof Be it known that we, VAN B. PERRINE, re- Fig. 1,taken on the lineyy,showing the mansiding at Fort Wayne, Allen county, State of ner ofanchoring the hangers in position. Indiana, and WILLIAM S. BOON,residing at Figs. 3 and 4 are enlarged details of the said 55 5Montpelier, in the county of Williams, in the hangers.

State of Ohio, citizens of the United States, The hangers 5, of suitablemetal and of have invented certain new and useful InI- proper strengthand dimensions, areidentical provements in Apparatus for Loading Luminform and proportions except that the lather; and we do hereby declarethat the foleral curvature of the top portion is in oppo- 60 IO lowingis a full, clear, and exact description site directions to admit ofanchorage at opof the invention, which will enable others posite sidesof the doorway 2. The said skilled in the art to which it appertains tohangers have upon their upper end a sharp make and use the same,reference being had pointed anchoring-hook 7, arranged out of to theaccompanying drawings, which form alinement with the main body of thehanger, 65 r 5 part of this specification. but connected therewith bythe curved por- Our invention relates to improvements in tion 6, Fig.4:, and adapted to be readily emapparatus for loading lumber, speciallydebedded for a holding engagement in the side signed and adapted forloadinglumberin boxof the car 1 at any desired point immediately cars.adjacent to the doorway 2. The lower end 7o It is well known that inloading lumbcrinto of said hangers is bent into a rectangular box-cars atemporary rest, support, or carform out of alinement with the bodythereof, rier for the lumber arranged transversely of for the purpose ofnormally securing the carthe doorway, and which can be Verticallyadrier-timber 11 in an upright position when in j usted therein as theloading of the car prouse, while the body of said hanger is arranged 75gresses, is desirable. in an oblique position, Fig. 2, when in use. Theobject, therefore, of our invention is The hangers thus constructed areadapted to to provide a simple, cheap, and substantial be readily andconveniently adjusted by the lumber-loading device which can be readilyoperator at any desired height by firmly fixand conveniently adjusted toany desired ing or inserting the point 7 in the inner face '80 height inthe car-doorway as the loading of of said car adjacent to the opendoorway 2, the car progresses. Figs. 1 and 2, with their bent lower endpro- Our invention comprises a pair of curved jecting through saiddoorway with the main and bent metallic hangers havingtheirhookedportion of said hanger arranged in an oblique upper endadapted to securely grip the side position, as described. In the bentlowerends 85 of the car at the doorway, and having their of said hangers5 is snugly but removably lower end adapted to receive and support amounted a cross-piece or carrier 11 of proper proper cross-piece orrectangular carrier,prefstrength and rigidity, preferably rectangularerably of wood, detach-ably fixed in the lower in form and of hickorytimber, and of suffiend of said hangers and adapted to support cientlength to projectafew inches upon both 90 the lumber in the act ofloading. sides of the said doorway, with the inner face The novelfeature of our invention conof said ends bearing against the side of thecar sists in the construction of the supportingwhen in use. It isobvious that the lateral, hangers whereby they are adapted for aconpressure against said carrier 11 incident to venient verticaladjustment and secure anthe loading of the lumber can have no tend- 95chorage when in use. ency to disengage said hangers 5 from their Similarreference-numerals indicate like anchorage, that the greater the weightof the parts throughout the several views, in lumber upon said carrierthe more deeply whichwill the hooks 7 be embedded and the more Figure 1is a perspective view of our imfirmly they will be secured to theiranchor- [00 5o provement in position for use in car-doorage. Inpractical use it is desirable to propways, showing the car and car-doorpartly erly grease the upper surface of said carrier to lessen thesliding friction of the lumber thereon.

Our device thus constructed is cheap, simple, conveniently portable, andreadily adj ustable.

Having thus described our invention and the manner of employing thesame, what we desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combinationin a lumber-loading apparatus of a pair of adjustable metallic hangers 5having upon their upper end a hook 7 laterally bent, as shown, for thepurpose specified, and provided upon its lower end with acarrier-receiving portion 10; and a carrier 11 removably mounted in saidportion 10 and havingits projecting ends adapt ed to secure the saidhangers from derangement in the operation of loading lumber thereon, allsubstantially as described.

2. In a lumber-loading device, a pair of metallic hangers 5 having ahook 7 arranged as shown by a curvature 6, whereby the said hangers areadapted for an oblique arrangement in the car-doorway, and for avertical adjustment and a hooked engagement with the sides of saiddoorway, and provided upon their outer and lower end with acarrier-support 10 out of vertical alinement with said hook, allsubstantially as and for the purpose described.

Signed by me,at Fort \Vayne, Allen county, State of Indiana, this 1stdayof April, A. I). 1807.

VAN B. PERRINE.

Vi tnesses:

JOHN D. RERICK, FRED. G. JENNE.

Signed by me, at Montpelier, \Villiams county, State of Ohio, this 5thday of April, 1897.

WILLIAM BOON.

Witnesses:

JOHN FRANKLIN WEn'rz, JAMES D. HILL.

